Das erste Dutzend halte ich für herausragende Alben des Jahres, die folgenden Werke ebenfalls für äußerst empfehlenswert. Mediokere Alben liste ich nicht.
1. JOSH T. PEARSON – Last Of The Country Gentlemen
2. SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE – Trippple Midnight Karma
3. W-H-I-T-E – Twin Tigers
4. YOUNG MAN – Ideas of Distance
5. TENNIS – Cape Dory
6. SHILPA RAY AND HER HAPPY HOOKERS – Teenage And Torture
7. FLOATING ACTION – Desert Etiquette
8. DISAPPEARS – Guider
9. CRAFT SPELLS – Idle Labor
10. CHARLES BRADLEY – No Time For Dreaming
11. PAULA – Relaxed Fit
12. MATANA ROBERTS – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres
13. SPECTRALS – Bad Penny
14. FABIO ORSI – Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul
15. DISTRACTIONS – Dark Green Sea
16. SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE – Flamingo
17. JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN – The Deep Field
18. ASOBI SEKSU – Fluorescence
19. MILLIONYOUNG – Replicants
20. DESTRY – Waiting On An Island
21. MINKS – By The Hedge
22. LET’S WRESTLE – Nursing Home
23. OTHER LIVES – Tamer Animals
24. DESTROYER – Kaputt
25. COLIN STETSON – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
26. CRYSTAL STILTS – In Love With Oblivion
27. MUNCH MUNCH – Double Visions
28. SHANNON AND THE CLAMPS – Sleep Talk
29. GENERATIONALS – Actor-Caster
30. JENNY HVAL – Viscera
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